Set up and manage your membership’s access levels to control which members can view each post.

Access levels are the foundation of your membership’s structure: they define who can see what before drip schedules or progress rules apply.

Use access levels to:

  • Create content tiers (e.g. Basic, Pro, Premium) within one membership
  • Offer different pricing or upgrade paths
  • Release new lessons as members progress
  • Grant free or manual access for partners, testers, or staff

If you’re new to membership structure, learn more about access, progress, and visibility to understand how access levels fit into your overall setup.

Key details:

  • Access options: You can create up to 10 levels. Members can hold several levels at once.
  • Per-post control: Assign access at the post level (categories and subcategories always appear in the menu, but only posts can be restricted).
  • Password protection: Applies to the whole membership, not individual levels.

Set up your access levels

To create an access level:

  1. Go to Memberships in your Kartra dashboard.
  2. Click your membership’s name and select the Access tab.
  3. Click Change to edit the Membership access levels module.
  4. Click + Add level.
    Access tab of the Membership wizard highlighting Add level button.
  5. Name the level (e.g. “Advanced Course”) and Save.
    Add access level window

Pro tip

Use clear, short names that match your pricing tiers or course structure (for example, “Basic,” “Pro,” or “Gold”).

To assign posts to access levels:

  1. Go to Memberships in your Kartra dashboard.
  2. Click your membership’s name and select the Access tab.
  3. Click Change to edit the Membership access levels module.
  4. Review your list of posts and use the toggles to enable or disable each post for the desired access level.
    Membership access levels module example
  5. Save the module.

Next, learn how to:

Preview your members’ experience

To test your membership:

  1. Grant access to test contacts to different access levels.
  2. Log in as each test contact to see what’s visible.

Troubleshooting tip:

If a post isn’t showing for a member, check both the assigned access level and any drip or progress settings that could delay its release.